Emily Taylor's Chocolate & Coffee Cake
6/6/2012
Serves 16
Emily Taylor from New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker shares her Chocolate and Coffee Cake Recipe
Ingredients
| 2 cups | Flour |
| 2 tsp | Baking soda |
| 1 tsp | Baking powder |
| ½ cup | Cocoa powder |
| ½ tsp | Salt |
| 1¾ cups | Sugar |
| 2 | Eggs, at room temperature |
| ½ cup | Milk |
| ½ cup | Sour cream |
| ½ cup | Canola oil |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla essence/extract |
| 200 g | Dark chocolate, melted |
| ½ cup | Black coffee, strong |
Directions
- Heat oven to 170 degC fan bake. Line a 23cm square cake tin with nonstick baking paper. Place milk and vinegar in a large bowl and stir to make soured milk. Whisk in the sugar, egg, salt, oil and vanilla essence.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder and baking soda and add to the wet mixture, stirring just enough to combine into a smooth batter.
- Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for 30 minutes or until the centre springs back when pressed with a fingertip. Remove to cool, then ice with chocolate frosting.
- To make frosting - Beat butter and icing sugar together in a bowl.
- Add cocoa powder and boiling water and beat until creamy. Makes 1 cup.
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